Experiential Fidelity: Leveraging the Mind to Improve the VR Experience

Beckhaus, Steffi; Lindeman, Robert W.

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“…In any system using Virtual Reality, the user is fundamentally at the centre of the mechanism as the virtual application is aimed at the user. In establishing 1 the virtual environment and its interfaces ( Figure 1) it is therefore necessary to use a human centred approach (focusing on the person) starting with the loop "perception, cognition, action", rather than a technical centred approach (focusing on the computer) [10]. Figure 1.…”

Section: Essential Concepts In the 3i² Interfacing Methods A 31mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…-At a physical level, we talk about sensorimotor immersion and interaction (I²sm), as physically the computer is connected to the user through the user's senses and motor responses via the UPI (User Perceptual Interface) [5]. This level of immersion and interaction is quantifiable in relation to the characteristics of the senses and the motor responses being exploited.…”

Section: The I2i Methods E Three Levels Of Immersion and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We noted the present lack of formal methods for designing systems integrating Virtual Reality. During the "Virtual Realities", Dagstuhl Seminar 08231 in June 2008, the topic "Experience Design" was considered a largely important one in the Virtual Reality field [3] [4] [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

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How to design compelling Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality experience?

Richir¹,

Fuchs²,

Lourdeaux³

et al. 2015

IJVR

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The convergence of technologies currently observed in the field of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, robotics and consumer electronic reinforces the trend of new applications appearing every day. But when transferring knowledge acquired from research to businesses, research laboratories are often at a loss because of a lack of knowledge of the design and integration processes in creating an industrial scale product. In fact, the innovation approaches that take a good idea from the laboratory to a successful industrial product are often little known to researchers. The objective of this paper is to present the results of the work of several research teams that have finalized a working method for researchers and manufacturers that allow them to design virtual or augmented reality systems and enable their users to enjoy "a compelling Virtual Reality experience". That approach, called "the I2I method", present 11 phases from "Establishing technological and competitive intelligence and industrial property" to "Improvements" through the "Definition of the Behavioral Interface, Virtual Environment and Behavioral Software Assistance". As a result of the experience gained by various research teams, this design approach benefits from contributions from current Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality research. Our objective is to validate and continuously move such multidisciplinary design team methods forward.

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Section: The I2i Methods E Three Levels Of Immersion and Interactionmentioning

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How to design compelling Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality experience?

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Lourdeaux³

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IJVR

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“…Modeling the subject's immersion and interaction should be examined on three levels: -At a physical level, we talk about sensorimotor immersion and interaction (I²sm), as physically the computer is connected to the user through the user's senses and motor responses via the UPI (User Perceptual Interface) [1]. This level of immersion and interaction is quantifiable in relation to the characteristics of the senses and the motor responses being exploited.…”

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An industrial approach to design compelling VR and AR experience

Richir

Fuchs

Lourdeaux³

et al. 2013

SPIE Proceedings

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The convergence of technologies currently observed in the field of VR, AR, robotics and consumer electronic reinforces the trend of new applications appearing every day. But when transferring knowledge acquired from research to businesses, research laboratories are often at a loss because of a lack of knowledge of the design and integration processes in creating an industrial scale product. In fact, the innovation approaches that take a good idea from the laboratory to a successful industrial product are often little known to researchers.The objective of this paper is to present the results of the work of several research teams that have finalized a working method for researchers and manufacturers that allow them to design virtual or augmented reality systems and enable their users to enjoy "a compelling VR experience". That approach, called "the I2I method", present 11 phases from "Establishing technological and competitive intelligence and industrial property" to "Improvements" through the "Definition of the Behavioral Interface, Virtual Environment and Behavioral Software Assistance". As a result of the experience gained by various research teams, this design approach benefits from contributions from current VR & AR research. Our objective is to validate and continuously move such multidisciplinary design team methods forward.Keywords: Virtual reality, design process, human centered design, methodology, innovation, immersion, interaction THE I2I METHOD Three levels of immersion and interactionThe software and hardware production of a system integrating virtual reality cannot be designed without analyzing human behavior in a virtual world. From that point on, it becomes absolutely indispensible to work with cognitive science experts. Their role is to establish: -The psychophysical characteristics of the user's senses and the motor responses; -The conceptual and pragmatic differences between the schemas and metaphors employed in the system; -The Behavioral Software Assistance needed to help the system user.The limits of human behavior in relation to the solutions chosen by the system designers, in particular the human capacity to resolve any sensorimotor inconsistencies [4].Our I²I approach is built around analyzing and modeling the subject's immersion and interaction in the virtual environment (Figure 1), developed at the Ecole des Mines ParisTech [3]. Modeling the subject's immersion and interaction should be examined on three levels: -At a physical level, we talk about sensorimotor immersion and interaction (I²sm), as physically the computer is connected to the user through the user's senses and motor responses via the UPI (User Perceptual Interface) [1]. This level of immersion and interaction is quantifiable in relation to the characteristics of the senses and the motor responses being exploited.

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“…They should evaluate the impact on their personal evaluation screen which they carried with them in the virtual environment and they had radio contact with the instructor which helped them during their evaluation. This followed the idea that a story is ultimately formed in the head of the user and that a carefully designed story might reframe a potential distraction into something in support of the story, thus not causing a break in presence (Beckhaus & Lindeman, 2011). The participants were told not to turn to the instructor and after the first three evaluation periods, most of the participants answered the questions automatically.…”

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Adaptive Generation of Emotional Impact Using Enhanced Virtual Environments

Haringer

Beckhaus

2012

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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In this paper we introduce novel methods of intensifying and varying the user experience in virtual environments (VE). VEs technically have numerous means for crafting the user experience. Little has yet been done to evaluate those means of expression (MoEs) for their emotional impact on people and to use their capability to create different experiences and subtly guide the user. One of the reasons is that this requires a system which is capable of easily and dynamically providing those MoEs in such a way that they can easily be composed, evaluated, and compared between applications and users. In the following, we first introduce our model of both informational and emotional impact of VEs on users, introduce our dynamic, expressive VR-system, and present our novel evaluation and rating method for MoEs. MoEs can be used to guide attention to specific objects or build up an emotion or mood over time. We then present a study in which users experience 30 selected MoEs and rate their qualitative emotional impact using this rating method. We found that different MoEs can be used to elicit many diverse emotions which were surprisingly consistent among the test persons. With these results, our work enables new ways to make VEs more interesting and emotionally engaging, especially over a longer period of time, opening new possibilities, for example, to increase the motivation for long, stressful, and tiresome training as in neurorehabilitation.

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Experiential Fidelity: Leveraging the Mind to Improve the VR Experience

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

How to design compelling Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality experience?

How to design compelling Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality experience?

An industrial approach to design compelling VR and AR experience

Adaptive Generation of Emotional Impact Using Enhanced Virtual Environments

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